Published by LLRX.com (described in the April 7, 2000 _Scout Report) on April 17, this guide was created by Anne Burnett, the Reference/ Foreign & International Law Librarian at the University of Georgia School of Law Library. The Council of Europe (CoE), created in 1949 and now comprised of 41 member states, "plays an important role strengthening democracy, human rights, the rule of law and...

This 58-page study from the National Bureau of Economic Research illustrates "a system of tradable deficit permits as an efficient mechanism for implementing fiscal constraints in the European Monetary Union." Author Alessandra Casella compares her system of deficit permits to the current Stability Pact, finding that her system seems to have more flexibility among the EMU countries, which would...